Media Moves

The E.W. Scripps Company has promoted the Director of Sales for its NBC affiliate serving Colorado Springs to the role of VP/GM.

Quu Inc., a technology company known for its capability of adding dynamic visuals to radio broadcasts, is adding to its "Success Team." This sees the arrival of a Customer Success Manager, and a Technical Success Manager. Each report to CEO Steve Newberry.

Starting June 28, TEGNA will have a new Director of Consumer Marketing. It's a woman who is joining the broadcast TV station owner from a soon-to-conclude daytime talk program seen on some of its own stations, including WGRZ-2 in Buffalo and KGW-8 in Portland, Ore.

A longtime public radio leader who served as President and GM of North Carolina Public Radio has passed away. She had been on medical leave since February. However, details about the cause of death were not shared by the family.

He's a New Hampshire native and rose through the ranks at Hearst Television, where he was News Director of its flagship property in Boston. For the past five years, he has been VP of News. Now, this pro has been selected to succeed the retiring Jeff Bartlett in his home state.

For 18 years and change, she's been the head of sales for Fox Television Stations' owned-and-operated station serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul market, adding SVP/Market Manager duties in December 2014. Now, this 35-year TV industry veteran is heading to the Pacific Northwest's largest market to head up Fox's O&O.

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises' Telemundo Global Studios has promoted the person in charge of Production Operations and Production Design at Argentina-based Underground Producciónes to the role of SVP/GM for the recently launched Telemundo Streaming Studios operation.

Two months ago, the News Director for TEGNA-owned KING-5 in Seattle-Tacoma was announced as the new ND for Nexstar Media Group‘s KTLA-5 in Los Angeles. Now, the company formerly known as Gannett has selected his successor.

TEGNA has transferred the Asst. News Director for its NBC affiliate in Charlotte to Connecticut, where he will take the News Director role for the company's FOX and The CW Network affiliates serving New Haven, Hartford, and most of the state.

For the last seven years, he has served as the Senior Executive Producer of ABC News’ “Good Morning America.” Now, he's joining Sean Compton in taking on a leadership role at Nexstar Media Group's still-growing NewsNation operation.

A veteran radio programming pro has just been named Director of Development for the company that says it invented online research for radio in the 1990s.

The Director of Sales for a pair of Sinclair Broadcast Group TV stations serving Asheville, N.C., and the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson-Clemson region of upstate South Carolina, is rising to VP/GM of the MyNetworkTV and ABC affiliates.

She began her career in 1997 as an assistant assignment editor at WPXI-11, Cox Media Group's NBC affiliate in Pittsburgh.  Now, after some time in the South, she's coming back to the Keystone State to serve as President/GM of a TEGNA ABC affiliate.

Salem Media Group has just named a new General Manager of its Orlando group of radio stations and for its related Salem Surround Orlando operation. It's an individual who was most recently the Las Vegas-based West Coast Market Manager for The Media Audit, and spent the majority of his career in Kansas City.

There's a new VP/GM at a onetime NBC affiliate that's seen a particular resurgence in recent years as an unaffiliated news-focused free-to-air property serving the San Francisco Bay Area. He takes his new duties at the Nexstar Media Group property on May 17.